In search of water for Olympics – answers
questions
- What are the dusty villages doing? sacrificing water
- What do farmers say? the province is dry
- When was there plenty of water to use on the land? in the past
- What can’t survive? the crops
- Where do farmers have to go for water? deeper in drained wells
- How much emergency water is going to be pumped to Beijing? 300 million cubic metres
- Where do the channels and pipes go? to Hebei province
- What is Hebei doing? ‘sacrificing itself’
- What have they got the capacity to do? supply water during the Olympics
- Where does Hebei rank in China for its water supply? near the bottom